St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-08
WANT AND SUFFERING
More Than Thirty Applicants
For Relief at a Single
Time Yesterday.
Two or Three Cases in West
st. Paul That Need Look
- ing After.
Little Boys in Tattered Gar
ments Asking Aid For
Their Families.
There Are Professional Beg
garS Who Hire Out to
Take Up Collections.

A great many ladies and gentlemen
stirred up by the publication in the
GLOBE, of the great distress existing,
have joined hands with the Relief so
clety, and daily make personal visits to
those cases worthy of relief as men
toned in the GLOBE. They follow up
the work begun by the society, and some
take charge of certain cases entirely.
thus making the work complete, and
atfOrding more than temporary aid.
One lady yesterday was mourning the
fact that her church had no dependent
poor. and characterized it as "a shame
that we hove no communicates who
need relief" and expresses her Senti-
mentS by asking that she be allowed to
enlist in the cause along with the other
ladies of the church. A certain wealthy
gentleman and wife drove to the So
clety building yesterday and asked for
the location of the residence where so
many have been carried off by consump-
ton, adding that they wished to relieve
them and make the little ones last
hours peaceful, and aid in soothing the
mother. Over thirty persons were in
the hall yesterday. awaiting to be sup
piled with clothes, all of them new cases
but one or two. That number was there
at one time, to say nothing of how
many have been there at other times
during the day.
IN WEST ST. PAUL.
Mr.. Hutchins and the reporter drove
over into West st. Paul, on Minnetonka
street, and visited a French family
named Patient. Many people suppose
that want and filth go hand in hand, but
it is no necessarily so. Though this
family was in want of food and prOvi-
siOns, everything within the house was
WOndrOuS neat and clean" The huS-
band, through sickness, has been con-
fined for three months. He had a
splendid team of horses, by which he
earned his living, and had saved up a
nice sum of money. AS the old story
runs, sickness caused it to rapidly take
wings. His team was then sold, but
when the proceeds were gone Mr.. Pa
tient was still unable to leave his bed
and is still there, suffering great pain.
He is a good-lOOlling man, and his wife
has a cheerful, busy disposition. In a
few weeks she will give birth to child,
which makes their case dOubly hard in
many ways.
In the top story Of West ST. Paul
business block lives man, his wife and
four small children. Everything about
the rooms was in dire confusion, and
the mother nearly frantic with the head
splitting yellS of the children. The
SOiled dishes from breakfast and dinner
still remained on the table, and the poor
woman had scarcely any opportunity to
talk to her visitors. The husband was
out hunting for work, and had been for
several days. A few humps of coal rep
resented all their fuel, and early next
week the S13 rent comes due, and not a
cent has yet appeared to pay it.
Some distance further on stands a
neat frame house of two low stories.
Everything about it, in and out, is neat
and kept III ScrnpulouS order. Three
weeks ago the husband died, and the
grOwlrup son. the only remaining sup
port, left for Duluth to find work. Yes
terday he - ,no~qafc-
RETURNED WORSE OFF
than when he left, though he is still
striving hard to secure position. OF
course, the well-being of his mother,
two little sisters. and two brothers de-
ponds entirely on him.
Into Mr.. Halls room, under the guild
ance of a kind neighbor, came two little
human frames, the miniature SONS of
Thomas OToole. Their coats were
something like crazy quilts, made up of
seams and patches. About their legs
were wrapped rags and strips of cloth,
III lltu VI oJOChlHSS, dlll JllclT appear
ance otherwise betokened misery. Mr.
Hall kindly attended to their wants.
Mr.. HutchinS and the reporter found no
new cases of extreme restitution, but
have several to visit to-day. Several
days ago the GLOBE mentioned the case
of a man named Anderson, who deserts
and throws his family OH the charity of
the city every winter. In fact he makes
habit of it. Some days ago a GLOBE
reached him and he read of his own con-
duct and his wife's distress. Yesterday
he returned to st. Paul, but his wife,
grown tired of such treatment, had
given two of her children away and re-
fused to allow Anderson to come in the
house, and declared that hereafter she
does not want him around, as she will
herself support what remains of the
family. An effort has been made i'll
the past, and Will be vigorously re-
newed, to put a stop to street begging.
This class is said to be composed mostly
of small girls, who make profession OF
it and hire out to other families. The
larger portion come from the levee. and
their dirty, filthy condition surpaSses
belief.